Word: buchwald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal comes through, Currier would pay less than half of the cost of the $12,000 machine in the form of a stipend, said house committee co-chair Zachary T. Buchwald '96 in a committee meeting Sunday night. The dining services would pay the rest, he said...
...Your name used for a character in an Art Buchwald column; you get a signed copy...
Memoirs from columnists Art Buchwald and Pete Hamill...
...unbearable note arises from a child's humiliation -- when he must impersonate an adult, must pay the price for grownups' failures and follies. Buchwald seems to have got through it with a sturdy and precocious self- possession. He shares with his father, he says, the habit of smiling no matter what -- a sort of armor, a mask of self-containment. Buchwald writes: "I must have been six or seven when I said, 'This stinks. I am going to become a humorist.' " He got some minuscule revenge by refusing to be Bar Mitzvahed, which grieved his father, and by running away...
Alcohol made Pete Hamill's father just as absent as Art Buchwald's mother was. The father, Billy Hamill, who came from northern Ireland, had only one leg: he lost the other after it was brutally broken in a soccer game. When Billy came home from the saloons at night to the family's Brooklyn apartment, he would remove his artificial leg along with his trousers. Pete remembers them hanging over a chair in the bedroom and the smell of vomit. He had his first fight when a boy named Brother Foppiano taunted in a singsong, "Your...